Subtitle of this chapter: The sea supermarket that makes the sea knights very happy

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"Pablo Escoba was once selected as one of the seven richest people in the world by Fortune magazine. Although he is known to the world as a South American drug lord, he and his Medellon Group made their true fortune during World War II. (Author's note: It's not Medellin but Medellon.)

In the 1940s, the Pacific was full of clouds, and Japan and the United States were carrying out the largest sea and air war in human history. Every day, countless ships, supplies and personnel were swallowed by this ocean. The soldiers participating in the war between the two countries were threatened with death every moment, and had various difficult and arduous combat tasks. It is conceivable how much psychological pressure they were.

Due to the limitations of the times and the in-depth research on war psychology, the logistics departments of these two countries are working hard to transport combat materials to the front line, but completely ignore the spiritual lives of the front line soldiers.

Japanese soldiers rely on "Jiji Anfeita" and comfort women, but because Japan's transportation capacity is limited, the supply of both is not completely guaranteed.

As the United States, whose national strength is far better than Japan, their soldiers are better. In addition to having leisure magazines and mahjong plaques like "Window of the World" and "Loft", they can also return home for vacation regularly. However, with the tense of war, the service time of combatants at all levels has been greatly extended, and even their vacation has been forced to be cancelled.

At this time, the Medellon Group came into being. In fact, the name "Medellon" comes from the name of Pablo's first comprehensive supply ship.

This 10,000-ton fast merchant ship is affectionately called "Super Market" by US soldiers because the goods that frontline soldiers and commanders dream of can be bought on this ship.

Various fresh vegetables, meats and fruits from South America have made American soldiers tired of canned food, especially SPAM, pay their salaries without hesitation. You should know that the food on the Medellon is at least dozens of times the purchase price.

Alcohol, tobacco, coca leaves, Afurong and even conch greatly alleviated the anxiety of frontline personnel due to these psychotropic drugs. Therefore, even some grassroots commanders welcomed the arrival of the "Medellon", and later the Pacific Command turned a blind eye to it.

There were even more enthusiastic female staff on board. These really enthusiastic Latin girls emptied their last nickel coins, so that during the Pacific War, grassroots soldiers from all over the U.S. military made a strike against the war asking for a raise.

I would like to say here that during the war, US front-line soldiers could get four times the salary they usually paid, but even soldiers who saved in normal times would feel that they might die in battle tomorrow. So why not enjoy it now?

Because the USS Medellon was very popular, her sister ships "Carrefour", "Agriculture and Industry", "7-11" and "Walmart" that caused the "Walmart Incident" in the future soon appeared on the Pacific Ocean.

Money can be mastered, and Pablo Escoba quickly got on with the Japanese. However, the transaction between the Medellon Group and the Japanese military became even more ugly. They paid for various "waste materials" from American frontline soldiers, and sold them to their enemies.

As Medellon's business grew bigger and bigger, the level of the US military involved became higher and higher. There is a saying that even General MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Pacific War Zone, participated in it and his ex-wife, Ms. Louis Cromwell MacArthur. (Author's note: These two did divorce later.)

However, due to the implementation of the Wartime Information Secrecy Law, these scandals have not been seen in the newspapers. Most of the secret investigations conducted by Congress on them have ended in vain.

At this moment, the "Walmart Incident" exposed the ugly transactions in the Pacific to the world.

The story is like this: At that time, the largest comprehensive supply ship under the Medellon Group, the 25,000-ton "Walmart" secretly repaired the waters near Semarang.

After the completion of the repair, the ship was intercepted by the joint patrol fleet of Britain and the Netherlands and asked to board the ship for inspection. Later, the information showed that the British received a tip that the "Walmart" was about to provide logistical support to the German submarine forces in the Indian Ocean.

The "Walmart" not only refused to execute it, but even asked for help from the outside world. Not long after, a Japanese high-speed destroyer team arrived at the scene and took the lead in firing at the British and Dutch fleet.

Just as the two sides were fighting, an aircraft carrier formation of the Fourth Fleet of the United States also arrived. Strangely, they did not fire at the Japanese fleet, but "persuaded" both sides to stop fighting. The way they persuaded was to send carrier-based aircraft to drop training bombs at the British and Dutch fleet.

The British and Dutch had to retreat, but they were suddenly hit by torpedoes and quickly caught fire and sank. All crew members of the entire fleet had no time to abandon the ship and were buried in the sea.

These torpedoes were launched by two German submarines, and these two sea wolves later surfaced openly.

So the most strange event in the history of World War II happened. The US aircraft carrier fleet, Japanese destroyer team, and German submarine forces not only did not fire at each other, but instead gathered happily near the "Walmart". It is said that the senior commanders of the Three Kingdoms also had a sumptuous dinner on the supply ship.

What they didn't expect was that there was a British submarine in the nearby waters. The captain of the submarine also brought a camcorder to record the entire incident in full.

Moreover, in addition to informing the Royal Navy superiors, this naval officer with a strong sense of justice also handed over the copy of the video to a British reporter. So before the British government could respond, the "Walmart incident" appeared in the Times.

It is conceivable that public opinion around the world was in an uproar, and people from all walks of life asked the three governments to give an explanation. However, at this time, some rebels became defense nurses for this incident.

Especially Mr. Yuan Yanshu, a famous anti-war figure, jumped up and down (crossed out here), running around and loudly declared that the "Walmart incident" showed the noble spirit of the sea knights of the Three Kingdoms. Not only should the soldiers involved in this incident be punished, they should also be praised.

Since the "Lonely Girl in the Famine" incident, the British newspaper industry has always been quite hostile to Mr. Yuan. They took out information they got from somewhere and claimed that the Medellon Group was actually the white gloves of Tianren Shipping under Mr. Yuan's name.

Mr. Yuan Yanshu naturally refused to show weakness, and retorted that the British and Dutch fleet was a new era pirate who trampled on the status of a neutral country, and they were the successors of the pirate spirit of the Royal Navy.

A war of verbalism across the Atlantic broke out.

Later, the three governments made official statements, which were very similar. The three statements said that their naval forces received a clear telegram from neutral ships to seek help, so they rushed to the scene of the incident. They all found that the British and Dutch fleet was carrying out piracy, so they expelled them in a "peaceful" manner. Unexpectedly, the British and Dutch fleets fought back and had to sink them in order to defend themselves.

President Roosevelt also gave a public speech on the radio on the "Wal-Mart Incident", believing that the Three Kingdoms Navy, which participated in the incident, were all humanitarian gentlemen, so this was a talk, not a scandal.

The most popular sentence in the speech is "We are enemies, and we are even more human." It is rumored that his speech was written by Mr. Yuan Yanshu.

In any case, the British and Dutch governments also stopped later, and the "Walmart incident" caused a stir and then returned to silence.

After this incident, the Medellon Group has been more openly carrying out their "comprehensive supply" business in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which is naturally a huge source of wealth. Therefore, after the war, it became one of the top five shipping giants in the world."

——Excerpt from "Pablo and his Medellon Group"

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Chapter completed!